The Luke and Pete Show - What Is That Smell?

Episode Date: April 22, 2021

On today’s episode, Luke shares fascinating news surrounding NASA’s new helicopter flying on Mars, while Pete is more interested in Tesla rear ends and vehicles that can open their own arse. ...We’ve also got time for bond villain emails, fabricated personal assistants, boss keys AND battery brands for you. What more could you ask for?If you're enjoying our shows, go and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts! 5 stars will do. Cheers! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 it's thursday it is the looks at notes 22nd of april my name is pete donaldson i'm joined by luke murr luke how the jerry hell are you my friend it says here in these notes i'm doing okay thanks it says here in this notes has that nasa uh mars helicopter floated around Mars yet? I was. Did you just click on the BBC website at the same time as me? No, no. I've been waiting all week for this bloody helicopter to start scooting around the surface of Mars.
Starting point is 00:00:36 Yeah, so apparently it successfully flown. So for those who don't know, an American space agency basically wanted to fly, they call it a small helicopter, but it's essentially a drone. Right. Which they called Ingenuity. They successfully flew it on Mars. It's the first powered, controlled flight by an aircraft on another world.
Starting point is 00:00:58 I think that should be bigger news. Everyone knows who the Wright brothers are. Yeah, I guess so Yeah, I mean Maybe just the press haven't woken up yet To how big a deal that is The press are rubbish at science stuff I think there's such a disconnect
Starting point is 00:01:14 Between what scientists are able to achieve And what newspaper people understand them And how well it's covered Right, okay, yeah Look, I will say that I've read two new stories uh this morning uh about the one was nasa flying a um a helicopter on another planet and the other one is um discovering that if you say to your tesla open butthole the uh the rear side uh marker lamp
Starting point is 00:01:43 mounted charge port will open so i know which one I'll be thinking about longer. You can ask your car to open its own arse. Who designed that to be the case? The Tesla people. They're fun guys. They make flamethrowers and, you know, get involved in Bitcoin. Mate, they are wacky fuckers. Do you reckon it'll be insufferable working at Tesla?
Starting point is 00:02:04 Yeah, I think... No, I think it'll be insufferable working at tesla yeah i think um no i think it'd be insufferable working for any big um company who thinks they're fucking stylish you think that who are invariably more styler than than substance in many ways going back to the um that um drone on mars which is incredible as does it open its butthole at any moment does it open it's got a charge any moment. Does it open its... It's got to charge somehow, hasn't it? That's true. Apparently, there's also been an approved mission,
Starting point is 00:02:31 which is going to happen sometime, I think in the next 10 years, for a helicopter mission to Titan, which is, I think, the biggest moon of Saturn and has amazing potential for all sorts of different scientific interests. So they're pressing on. They ain't stopping.
Starting point is 00:02:46 They're not resting on their laurels. This is not an end game for them. They're going, right, where can we go next? I just think that looking at companies like Amazon, who just will not calm the fuck down, and they're just constantly thinking about different ways of, and Tesla as well, you know, companies who are just thinking of different ways to sort of do stuff
Starting point is 00:03:04 that just generally involve more gyroscopes and helicopter blades. So I think NASA are just getting on board and going, hey, we invented a lot of this aeronautics bullshit, so we're going to fly all the way to Titan. We're going to attack it. How would you like to see Amazon calm down? I just think, well, I mean,
Starting point is 00:03:27 I think they could pay some tax that would be good wouldn't it I like that you've approached this question seriously yeah as we I mean as we go I mean it's just all autonomous driver driverless fucking lorries and kind of like you know people and the drivers they do have
Starting point is 00:03:42 pissing in bottles and stuff I mean just paying a fair wage and decent working conditions of people and the drivers they do have pissing in bottles and stuff. I mean, just paying a fair wage and decent working conditions and paying tax would be a good start because at the end of the day, they're not quite there with just having robots working for them. They've still got to use humans at some point.
Starting point is 00:03:58 So yeah, I mean that. And I say that with the fact that that bell at the door was probably a couple of pillows I just heard from Amazon. But, you know, you know what it is. They've had a great year.
Starting point is 00:04:08 They've had a fantastic year this year. And no one can deny them that. I got an email from Amazon as you were making that point. Genuinely. That's just kind of, that's the problem, isn't it? That's part of the problem.
Starting point is 00:04:20 They are on it, aren't they? I mean, presumably, chances are, we're probably on an Amazon server, probably got someone listening to us recording the podcast. Go on, you're not putting that in, are you? Better take that out, mate. What did they say on the email?
Starting point is 00:04:38 Oh, it's just something that's been delivered. I think it's toilet paper. Luke, that wasn't interesting. I thought you were going to give us a little pretend that the hand of Bezos was going to come down and splatter us. I'll tell you what it is, if you want, but it doesn't tell you on the email, does it? No, it is. It's toilet paper. It's depressing. Speaking of depressing, did you read the story about... It's been reported in the Daily Record,
Starting point is 00:05:01 so I think I'm legally about to... I'm legally allowed to say this because I think he's admitted to it. OK. You see that David Tennant has essentially been accused... Or basically, he's revealed that he had a fictional personal assistant for quite a long time. Right, yes. He said he invented a name of a person called melissa von
Starting point is 00:05:28 stressel right to act like a quote buffer to have awkward conversations i didn't want to have right and he would say um i find it very difficult to say no to anyone so i would um i would basically respond as melissa to say that I couldn't come and open a fate or do an inspirational talk. I didn't know where to begin, so I just did it this way. So basically, exactly that happens in the... Mrs Doubtfire. ...Brickage of Ace Vehicle, extra.
Starting point is 00:05:58 Say again? Oh, right, yes. Mrs Doubtfire. I just sort of think, because he's Scottish, and I go, hello, dear, I'm so sorry. He can't go and do open you know judge the garden fate
Starting point is 00:06:09 yeah part of me is like that's a bit weird and you know I mean fine but the other part of me you've hit onto something I was going to say which is basically
Starting point is 00:06:16 David Tennant's an actor right so it would actually be quite an easy thing for him to do to just pretend to be someone else and do it on the phone but presumably
Starting point is 00:06:24 because he's invented a female personal assistant he's doing it all on email which i think is a waste of his talent personally definitely and also like quite easy he's sort of cheaping out a little bit because he could just hire a personal assistant who bats flat bats away a load of stuff so look he could be doing that i know annika rice did it she actually uh when she um was fired by her agent she uh made her own fictional agent called clemmy hart i believe right um and she would kind of and she would kind of drum up support drum up jobs you know negotiate um presumably over email i don't know whether she ever did it over the phone which would probably i don't know how good an actor Annika Rice is. She loved a helicopter. She'd be up for an attack on Titan.
Starting point is 00:07:10 Annika Rice, build a hospital for some kids. Lovely. That's the thing about Annika Rice. If you sent her up in a helicopter to Titan, she would almost certainly over-deliver. She would, yeah. She'd over-deliver in record time. I think, I'm fairly certain, and I'm not going to name names because I don't think it would be appropriate.
Starting point is 00:07:28 I'm fairly certain there's someone I worked with in the past who isn't rate-handed and is a complete blagger and has got themselves to a far higher level than they deserve to, even though that level isn't very high. I'm fairly certain, I thought at the time, and I still think it now, they invented an agent, or they've got someone who does stuff for them that isn't actually an agent.
Starting point is 00:07:51 Look, look, look, look, look. If you keep talking about this, my agent, Stephen... You got dropped by your agent years ago. Everyone knows that. Okay, he just stopped being an agent. Said, I'm going to go and live in the south of France. I was like, right, good for you, mate. Is that what actually happened? Yeah, he stopped being an agent. Yeah. Said, I'm going to go and live in the south of France. I was like, right, good for you, mate. Knock yourself out.
Starting point is 00:08:06 Is that what actually happened? Yeah, he stopped being an agent. And I said, well, look, if anybody else at the agency fancies taking me on. And he made it very clear nobody was. So you made yourself so unbankable that your agent quit the industry? Well, you know what?
Starting point is 00:08:24 The thing is, Luke, I am not and never have been pushy. I'm not interested in a career. I find work annoying. I want to do as little as possible for as much money as I possibly can. And things like VO jobs, things like a radio job was kind of that job. But the problem with having an agent just to negotiate one job, because in radio, you're only ever allowed one job. People won't let you do, you know,
Starting point is 00:08:50 I couldn't do a show for Six Music. I couldn't do a show for Virgin Radio at the time. Oh, right, so what, he's got you in the bag? He doesn't have enough money to make for you? So what, he's got you in the bag? Yeah, he's made as much money as he can, really. Unless he wants to genuinely try and sell me in on projects, to be quite frank, you know'm i'm i'm not a good
Starting point is 00:09:07 looking man i'm not a good presenter what's the point why why why would it why wouldn't he go for someone who he knows is popular and easier selling me yeah and you know and and fits better so so yeah there's literally there was literally no point in me having i accept that people he's not gotta leave the industry i mean that's an overreaction so he but he was whenever there was any negotiations that we had he was tip top whatever i whatever i threw and i would throw and i would just because of admin and i can't be outside man i just go can you invoice for that can you and then take 10 15 just for doing the admin and i was honest did you did you did you keep an eye on how many percents he was taking no god no he's have been creaming unbelievably off the top.
Starting point is 00:09:47 No wonder he's moved to the South of France. No, exactly. So, yeah, he's in the South of France now. He said, yeah, I'm off. And I was like, okay, cool. Fucking Monte Carlo, probably. Oh, dear. Anyway, we have got an agent now.
Starting point is 00:10:00 It's a different agent. We have got an agent now. It's a different one, though. Not him. I mean, that guy's just... He was just passing through the industry by the sound of it. He was great. He got a lovely little dog on Instagram I follow.
Starting point is 00:10:15 Very, very nice man. There's no hard feelings. One of the few good agent stories I think we've all got. Bearing in mind my past agents on more than one occasion have tried to sort of pass off a job that I've sent their way as their own industry, very much like the extras Ricky Gervais character that Stephen Merchant plays.
Starting point is 00:10:36 Oh, Darren Lamb. Yeah, where he pretends that he's gone out and found some work for me when in fact I've gone out and found the work and threw it his direction. Fantastic. Why did you throw it his direction. Fantastic. Why did you throw it his direction? Because again, I just want things to be done properly. I don't want to be
Starting point is 00:10:51 invoicing myself and negotiating myself. That's what they're there for. But it just made me laugh that they went, oh Pete, I found you some work with this guy. And I was like, he's my mate and I got that work. And I said, yo, you bell, you found me nothing. Idiots. By the way, talk, you bell, you found me nothing. Idiots. Well, by the way, speak,
Starting point is 00:11:06 talk to me about how your hair's going. I told you I cut my nose off to spite my face, didn't I? What do you mean? I was in. Well, I've got the arsehole
Starting point is 00:11:14 with the local hairdresser who I've frequented regularly before pandemic and they kind of gave the impression that they, say again? Is he off to the South of France? He's out of there.
Starting point is 00:11:25 Yeah, he said he's so fed up of cutting my hair that they... Say again? Is he off to the South of France? He's out of there. Yeah. He's so fed up of cutting my hair that he's leaving the industry. No, he... I used them regularly before the pandemic, and they gave me the impression that I was a valued customer, right? And then they said that... I called them up to get an appointment once they all opened again. They said, oh, we've got nothing available until the start of June.
Starting point is 00:11:43 And I was like, well, how is that possible? I mean, I've literally rung you a day after the announcement's been made. And they said, oh, well, we sent an email out to all of our valued clients and it got booked up really fast. And I was like, okay, so I didn't get an email. So you're implying that I'm not a valued client,
Starting point is 00:11:58 even though I come all the time and I've got quite thick hair. I didn't say that. I've got thick hair. It's the littlest little bit of protestation I've ever had. I didn't say that. I've got thick hair is the littlest little bit of protestation I've ever heard. I didn't say that bit. You should use that in everything. You should use that in everything.
Starting point is 00:12:11 Any negotiations. I would like to make it clear that you were talking to a person who has very thick hair. What I'm saying is, it makes sense. I didn't say that specifically, but if you think about it, it's perfectly logical. Look, you're losing your hair, Pete Dawson. I'm not, right?
Starting point is 00:12:24 That's a fact, right? Don't start lashing out. a fact right just because mr thick hair your head's getting too warm okay listen i won't use you i'll take you out the firing line fine think of me and then think of someone of my age who's really thinning on top right that's not a long-term investment for them what they're going to get three or four haircuts left max out of them? You're going to get me for life. Right, okay, I see. Yeah. You should be protecting me.
Starting point is 00:12:50 Yeah. I'm very bankable. Very bankable. Yeah, but then you do have a kind of, you can get away with looking quite unkempt for a very long time. When I was in Undercut Boulevard, a boulevard I should really return to. It's not terrible at the moment with my ponytail. I't think it's gonna help it mate if i'm being honest
Starting point is 00:13:08 no it's it's it's not ideal um but uh yeah like i think that um you do you can look um you can carry uh an unkempt hair kind of hair situation really you'd look all right when it's a bit longer and i think you I used to go every month I used to go to Mr Toppers every month when I had an undercut you are
Starting point is 00:13:30 you are steampunk in the you are steampunk in the streets peaky blinders in the sheets though right so you need to keep your hair
Starting point is 00:13:37 pretty fucking kept because otherwise you're going to lose that peaky blinders look yeah that I invented myself me and Jack Grealish yeah do you are you still a fan of peaky blinders I've never seen a single episode Peaky Blinders, look. Yeah, that I invented myself, me and Jack Grealish, yeah.
Starting point is 00:13:45 Are you still a fan of Peaky Blinders? I've never seen a single episode, Luke. I think you know that. If you could only watch one TV show between now and the rest of your life, would it be Peaky Blinders or Only Fools and Horses? It'd probably be Peaky Blinders. I was talking about Peaky Blinders yesterday
Starting point is 00:14:03 and it reminds me of when I was at a wedding about five years ago an Australian woman going oh my god you got hair like where's
Starting point is 00:14:13 she's Australian not South African that's South African you got you got hair like you got hair like Peaky Blinders have you seen Peaky Blinders
Starting point is 00:14:21 but she kept on saying far out she just got oh man it's far out you should Peaky Blinders? But she kept on saying, far out. She just got, oh man, it's far out. You should watch it, it's far out. She's Australian, but she punctuates her South African accent with some American accent phrases. Yeah, true, true.
Starting point is 00:14:35 What did you say? She was just, I have no interest in Peaky Blinders. But I would say that... There's no way you disagree with her. You never disagree with anyone you don't know very well. But I just always thought, I think, with peaky blinds is one of the shows that it just it just feels a bit too bbc to be ever be dangerous yeah i automatically don't like i automatically don't like that sort of caper and it's pathetic yeah you always think in the back of your mind nothing truly seismic or horrific's gonna happen here because it's the bbc and they
Starting point is 00:15:02 won't do it yeah yeah if it's h, you never know what you're going to get. Exactly. They're going to kill off loads of different characters in the most bloody horrible way and do whatever they want. I just think with the BBC they have to be the same network that gives you strictly. That is very true. I also think
Starting point is 00:15:19 they can't do anything off the beaten track different these days, I don't think, which is a shame. I don't want to be seen as't do anything like off the beaten track different these days, I don't think, which is a shame. But when we see, I don't want to be seen as like an old guy
Starting point is 00:15:28 complaining about the BBC because I do like the BBC, but sometimes they don't help themselves, do they? They really don't. Anyway, let's have a break.
Starting point is 00:15:37 When we come back, we're going to do some battery browns, see if we've got some new players and we'll also do round off the week's emails as well,
Starting point is 00:15:44 which will be bloody exciting so don't miss it and we'll see do round off the week's emails as well which will be bloody exciting so don't miss it and we'll see you in a minute join us on the football ramble as we explore the ridiculous world of football we bring in-depth analysis of the biggest moments like bruno fernandez's one-eyed penalties sounds like a metallica song yeah it does but if you have one eye closed you know your perception so imagine if you tried the dink It's a Metallica song. Yeah, it does. Obviously, like... One eye open. But if you have one eye closed, you know your perception. So imagine if you tried the dink and it just, like, went, like, two feet in front of him. Every weekday, we cover the good, the bad and the Newcastle.
Starting point is 00:16:17 Although Shelby wasn't surprised either. He said the way they play isn't great. And you couldn't fucking beat them, could you? Could Shelby be the mole? Didn't Bruce accuse the mole of treason? To the Geordie Nation.
Starting point is 00:16:32 Yeah. Putting the football world to rights. If you want to put a message on a T-shirt under your shirt, slag it off your mind. That is an absolute
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Starting point is 00:16:51 and we want you to get involved too. Search the Football Ramble on your favourite podcast player to listen now. This was a Stakhanov production. We're back. It's the Luke of Peach Hill. Pete Donaldson with you. Joined by Luke Aaron Moore. Luke, before we get to the battery brands, speaking of batteries,
Starting point is 00:17:08 how much space do you reckon the US saved by switching from chunky cathode ray tube televisions to LCDs? How much, how much, what did they save? How much space, how much volumetric space has the US saved by switching from those big chunky TVs of yesteryear to the LCDs that you and I enjoy? That's a really good question. That's a brilliant question. I reckon the answer is going to be amazing.
Starting point is 00:17:36 Someone sat down and worked it out incredibly. Yeah. So basically they've just taken the dimensions, they've basically taken the amount of TVs that have been bought LCD-wise and taken into account the change in the dimensions and then worked out the overall space. I reckon it's like millions of square feet. But remembering, of course, that the LCD televisions are generally larger.
Starting point is 00:17:59 So, you know, they've got a bigger screen by a fair whack as well. So I'll tell you, in 1997, the average TV screen size was 27 inches. That was the average TV size in 1997. And they were all pretty much those kind of screens. And then in 2018, the average TV screen size is 47 inches. Isn't that incredible? The average TV? That's big.
Starting point is 00:18:20 Americans' houses are big, though. True, true. So you've gone from 6 cubic feet to 1.6 cubic feet with the difference differing in dimensions. So for the same amount of TVs, the amount of space saved comes to around about 32,000 Boeing 747s. Wow. 32,000 Boeing 747s of space.
Starting point is 00:18:44 And what are they doing with that space? Well, exactly, yeah. Getting a new national park. Getting some more LEDs put up or something. I don't know what people have in their house anymore. Right. I had a meeting with a kitchen supplier, REN Kitchen, last week.
Starting point is 00:18:59 Oh, don't go with REN. Oh, well, I'm glad our new sponsor, REN, as part of the show. Why don't I go with Wren. Oh, well, I'm glad our new sponsor, Wren, why don't I go with Wren? Why did you not enjoy the Wren experience? It's only my opinion. It's a personal opinion. And when I had my new kitchen done, which is only a couple of years ago,
Starting point is 00:19:16 we explored all the main ones. And actually, I'm going to turn this into a positive. I'm going to say the best one we were told about and the result and the installation and the price was fantastic was Wix. Wix, right, OK. But presumably you have to install it yourself, get your own neighbour around and...
Starting point is 00:19:34 Nah. No? No, no, no, it's all taken care of, brother. It's all taken care of, brother man. What? Yeah. Well, the South African man who was in rent amused me greatly because the house that
Starting point is 00:19:45 we're buying um it's got a very old kitchen and you know the the price has been priced down accordingly and uh the big bit so the the the the the the work surface is all wood lovely bit i mean it's it's all right it's a nice bit of wood but it's it's terribly water damaged it's like blistered and kind of the water's got into it and they've not sealed it properly and all that jazz right but this guy like we showed this the guy at rent a picture of like this uh of the kitchen that we're going to be replacing and he was obsessed with this fucking bit of wood it's like gone there's such a lovely bit of wood i should i if you go what you need to do don't, go elsewhere. Find yourself a guy who knows about wood,
Starting point is 00:20:27 knows about the wood, and get him to plane it down and reseal it, and you could have a lovely, beautiful piece of wood for your kitchen. And he's got a bit of Zimbabwean. He sounded a bit like the woman who was talking about your hair earlier. Yes, exactly.
Starting point is 00:20:42 But he was obsessed. And every time we tried to talk about, you know, cabinets and, you know, getting a, you know, the fridge installed here and there, he just kept on bringing it back to the... I would not... I cannot label this... If your dad wanted to... Just give me a ring,
Starting point is 00:20:58 I'll come round with a van and I'll take that bit of wood away. And he's obsessed with this bit of fucking wood. He just kept on... Who was selling who the kitchen? That's what I wanted to know. It was very interesting. When we got our kitchen, listen,
Starting point is 00:21:08 here's how good wicks are. When we did our kitchen, we got this nice piece of wood for the work surface and they slightly miscalculated how much we'd need, right? Right. And they also undercharged us
Starting point is 00:21:20 for the wood because they measured it up and said, you'll need this amount and somewhere along the line it got processed wrong and we had loads more wood than we needed. And rather than take it back again, it's a beautiful piece of, I think it's maple,
Starting point is 00:21:33 thick maple. The guys who installed the kitchen, who were this amazing team of Bulgarian carpenters. Acrobats. Yeah, they made a nice big cheese board for us out of it and a coffee table. Oh, the coffee table's a nice touch. I reckon I could fashion a cheese board out of it.
Starting point is 00:21:52 No, but you say that, but you've got to sand it, you've got to seal it, you've got to do all the right stuff. It's got to be done properly. And the coffee table, Mimi finished off, but they basically let us keep it, essentially. And it's expensive stuff, that stuff. Yeah, no, I bet. I love...
Starting point is 00:22:07 Between working for local government and working for radio, I... We're talking about this, isn't it? Like, the... You sort of, like, look back at your life and you kind of forget the kind of, like, the wilderness kind of couple of years that you kind of don't know what you're doing
Starting point is 00:22:23 and you're trying to sort of forge a path but you're a little bit unsure and you're just trying to sort of maintain some level of kind of uh income and i remember going for a a job um at a at a at a um like a timber yard and i can't it was like near finsbury park i think right just this little timber yard um but it's Because I was moving from local government and I was on, you know, 30 grand going down to 50 quid a day at XFM, which didn't get increased by huge amounts as it went on. But I was getting paid a pittance at XFM, but I really wanted to work there, and so I had to work other jobs.
Starting point is 00:23:01 And that kind of going for a job at a timber yard, just kind of walking in and sort of going, and the man showing me where all the timber came from in in in Scandinavia and stuff like that's like I could have been a timber man it could have gone the other way what would you have actually been doing there um I think it was some kind of marketing I can't remember to be honest it was some I wasn't like operating the the buzz or anything, but I just remember sort of going, this is weird. I did not, I wasn't going from marketing executive at a London-based quango. Yeah, can I just say, if you want an example
Starting point is 00:23:35 of the disgusting wastage at local government level, it's peaked on us on 30 grand a year in 2003. Unbelievable. I cannot believe what you would have been bringing to the table, with respect, in 2003 for 30K a year. That's almost 20 years ago. Astonishing. Yeah, but I mean, it was a quang.
Starting point is 00:23:56 Look, it was effectively private sector. I was owned by a company. I was, you know, it wasn't as if that was very much a private company making the money. So imagine if I was on the payroll of just the local government doing what I was doing. Terrible, terrible business. Yeah, could have been worse.
Starting point is 00:24:10 Oh, by the way, before producing that as a coronary, I've got to do these battery brands. Sorry, sorry. I said I would do them. Martin Salmon has sent in Camelion batteries. I've looked at them and I don't specifically remember the name, but I do recognise the picture
Starting point is 00:24:28 so I'm going to say not a new player sorry Martin Damien Murray has sent in two types, he's sent in which definitely are not new players and he's also sent in Toy State, which I believe are
Starting point is 00:24:42 I reckon I think the first ones again've i again i don't recognize the name but i recognize the vibe if i think it's fair to say i'm going to give damien one out of two there and kieran ross is sent in golden power we saw golden power for the first time around 2009 sorry kieran you're way wider than mark there golden power is not a new player so out of the four camelionelot, Endura Day, Golden Power and Toy State, it is the
Starting point is 00:25:08 latter of those, Toy State, that is officially a new player entering the game. Beautiful. Get it on the list. Fantastic stuff.
Starting point is 00:25:15 Shall we get an email? Yeah, squeeze an email in. Why not? Let's squeeze an email up. Patrick with a
Starting point is 00:25:21 surname that has been redacted for future job reasons. Hello, chaps. Great show. Long-time listener. Still stuck in lockdown here in Dublin, so the continuing stream of battery and steampunk-related content
Starting point is 00:25:31 has given me the boost I need. I enjoy that we have cornered the market on steampunk content, but neither of us really know what it is. Listening to a previous show where a listener mentioned the paper-in-hand walk-around-the-office ploy to look busy, something that Luke Murr on more than one occasion has employed. It reminded me of a tactic my friend and I used to do when we were actually allowed in offices. When we worked in telesales on an open-planned floor,
Starting point is 00:25:55 surfing the World Wide Web was forbidden, as we needed to be constantly dialing or emailing prospective clients. Therefore, we created an ingenious solution which allowed us to continue scrolling football and comedy websites whilst giving the illusion of grafting hard for the business. All we had to do was find the article we wanted to read, copy in full and paste it into a new email correspondence at work. Whenever the top brass was mulling about it,
Starting point is 00:26:19 it would simply appear we were working hard sending out emails. This only backfired on me uh once when my boss came over unexpectedly and in a rush to close the email i ended up sending it out q and a half email exchange with a current client as to why i'd sent them that day's bbc sports gossip column amazing look in enriching the lives of your clients very enjoyable ps on a previous show you speculated what downing Street was like. On my job after telesales, I worked in providing photocopiers.
Starting point is 00:26:50 Oh, wait a minute. Patrick said that you should redact the photocopying part, so... After saying photocopy. Yeah, but I mean, no one's going to... I'm keeping it in. A random man sold photocopies
Starting point is 00:27:01 to the government. You're not going to get in trouble for that, Patrick. I think you're being too cautious there. You'll be fine. You'll be fine. We understand that Downing Street needs photocopies to the government. You're not going to get in trouble for that Patrick I think you're being too cautious there. You'll be fine you'll be fine. We understand that Downing Street needs photocopiers and men sell photocopiers there's no trade secrets here. Suffice to say it was always an amazing experience. It's like
Starting point is 00:27:14 the TARDIS as you enter. It's huge in all directions. I also met the former resident Cat Ollie and used to give him a good stroke whilst I worked for engineers to fix the copiers. Lovely old job. Fantastic. I love the idea of just sitting in the very nucleus of power and just sitting there casually stroking a cat.
Starting point is 00:27:32 Fantastic. Very Bond villain. Thanks for that, Patrick. I mean, I can only say that when I worked at a call centre back in the day, the only website that wasn't blocked for some reason was the Guardian website. So you'd spend all your time reading music reviews, field reviews.
Starting point is 00:27:51 But yeah, exactly. It was ideal, actually. Lots of content. I don't know why that slipped through the net, but it did. But it was before social media anyway. A lot of football websites and stuff used to have a boss key function.
Starting point is 00:28:01 Do you remember? There used to be a thing that you could click on every page. There was a little cross and it would change into like an excel spreadsheet or something some video games had it as well i like that a lot sim city i think had one maybe i remember a forum i used to frequent have a quick had a quick boss um button where you click on it it flicks up an excel graph yeah it might have been yeah but i never had any use to be looking at a graph. Basically, if I was looking at a graph,
Starting point is 00:28:27 people would be like, what are you doing? What is he doing? That's less like the work he should be doing in a fucking internet forum, sadly. Anyway, Pete Donaldson, that's it. Is that BMI? Right. That's it for us, isn't it?
Starting point is 00:28:37 Yeah, let's get out of it. Yeah, let's get out of it. I mean, this has been the first edition of the Luke and Pete Show. We'll be back on Monday with more of this. Keep your battery brands coming in. I want to know stuff like, have we ever seen the dinosaurs? Willie?
Starting point is 00:28:50 Have we ever seen... Helicopters to another planet? Exactly. Helicopters to other planets, all kinds of stuff. Send them all in and we'll see you on Monday. Alright. Yeah, don't forget it's hello at lukeandpeatshow.com and the email at lukeandpeachshow on the Twitter
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